Pozzallo, the attack from "In movimento": "Youth policies in collapse, sports facilities reduced to rubble"

A cry of alarm that sounds like a definitive condemnation. The political group "Pozzallo in Movimento" breaks the silence and launches a frontal attack on the Administration led by Mayor Roberto Ammatuna. The issue is one of the most sensitive for the community: the future of new generations and the state, defined as "failing," of youth and sports policies. The most painful symbol of what the movement calls "administrative inefficiency" is the municipal swimming pool. A facility that, according to the complaint, has gone from being a recoverable asset to a monument of degradation. "Years of inaction have allowed it to be vandalized and plundered," the political group explains. "In 2022, the damages amounted to 300 thousand euros; today, due to the lack of planning, the figure has risen to over 3 million and 600 thousand euros."

The analysis of "Pozzallo in Movimento" traverses the city like a war bulletin. There is no facility that seems to escape neglect: reported subsidence and lack of certification for the synthetic turf, the fields on Via Follereau, despite the proclamations about the changing rooms, remain closed and unusable; the field of the Amore school is blocked with no alternatives; those adjacent to the sports hall have crumbling stands and walls, the structures described in a total state of abandonment or halted despite repeated announcements from the administration.

The consequences of this scenario are not only aesthetic but also social and economic. The lack of usable facilities forces dozens of young athletes and their coaches to move daily to other centers in the province to train. This means academic sacrifices for the kids and additional costs for the families in Pozzallo, forced to seek outside the city what the Administration fails to provide within its walls. For the political group, the issue is profound: sports must be understood as a social safeguard and a tool for preventing distress. "When a city turns off the lights of its sports facilities," the note from Pozzallo in Movimento concludes harshly, "it is also turning off the future of its youth."